Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships occurred on the morning of 30 July (heats) and in the evening of 31 July (final) in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 34 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 33 swam.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

* World record (WR): 14:34.56, Grant Hackett (Australia), July 21, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan.
* Championship record (CR): same

## Results

### Final

| Place | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 14:42.58 |
| 2 | Larsen Jensen | USA | 14:47.58 |
| 3 | David Davies | Great Britain | 14:48.11 |
| 4 | Yuri Prilukov | Russia | 14:51.62 |
| 5 | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | Poland | 14:59.38 |
| 6 | Zhang Lin | China | 15:09.79 |
| 7 | Sébastien Rouault | France | 15:09.84 |
| 8 | Christian Hein | Germany | 15:14.91 |

### Heats

The top-8 swimmers from the 5 preliminary heats qualified for the event final, the next evening. These eight "qualifiers" are denoted by a Q.

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | David Davies | Great Britain | 14:59.33 | Q |
| 2 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 15:00.18 | Q |
| 3 | Yuri Prilukov | Russia | 15:01.03 | Q |
| 4 | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | Poland | 15:03.56 | Q |
| 5 | Larsen Jensen | USA | 15:07.58 | Q |
| 6 | Sébastien Rouault | France | 15:08.00 | Q |
| 7 | Christian Hein | Germany | 15:12.12 | Q |
| 8 | Zhang Lin | China | 15:12.62 | Q |
| 9 | Takeshi Matsuda | Japan | 15:13.39 | |
| 10 | Sergiy Fesenko | Ukraine | 15:14.67 | |
| 11 | Troyden Prinsloo | South Africa | 15:16.60 | |
| 12 | Marco Rivera | Spain | 15:19.42 | |
| 13 | Dragoș Coman | Romania | 15:22.21 | |
| 14 | Fernando Costa | Portugal | 15:27.70 | |
| 15 | Igor Chervynskiy | Ukraine | 15:28.49 | |
| 16 | Kurtis MacGillivary | Australia | 15:28.80 | |
| 17 | Luka Turk | Slovenia | 15:30.46 | |
| 18 | Spyridon Gianniotis | Greece | 15:30.97 | |
| 19 | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 15:39.18 | |
| 20 | Chris Thompson | USA | 15:41.66 | |
| 21 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 15:41.88 | |
| 22 | HAN Kuk-In | South Korea | 15:47.68 | |
| 23 | Evan Marcus | Guatemala | 15:56.20 | |
| 24 | Gard Kvale | Norway | 15:57.38 | |
| 25 | YU Cheng | China | 16:00.97 | |
| 26 | Nawaf Al-Wazzan | Kuwait | 16:04.18 | NR |
| 27 | Miguel Mendoza | Philippines | 16:06.53 | |
| 28 | Sheng-Chieh Tang | Chinese Taipei | 16:18.10 | |
| 29 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 16:50.60 | |
| 30 | Zhi Cong Lim | Singapore | 16:54.29 | |
| 31 | Steven Mangroo | Seychelles | 16:59.00 | NR |
| 32 | Marcus Cheah | Singapore | 16:59.08 | |
| 33 | Neil Agius | Malta | 16:59.71 | |
| -- | Aung Kyaw Moe | Myanmar | DNS | |
